Not even the first crash. it's been going up and down like a prozzies knickers like this for ages. And it will continue to do so. It'll fly back up
within a month. If you have BC, you haven't lost anything, just hold on. This is seriously volitile investments, but fear not, it'll be back up (and
down, and up, and down) soon enough.

And it shot up from $160 to $260 in less than 48 hours. The "correction" basically brought it back to where it was only a few days ago. It was a
predictable outcome of that sharp increase. Stop the sensationalism.

I suspect that the fed is behind this, they're the only ones with enough muscle to drive it down into the ground, shattering investor confidence and
causing a panic sell-off.

Did anybody actually think the fed (and by extension, the US gov't) would allow this alternative currency to be freely traded?? They're the most
crooked and devious players in the stock market.

I'm not in it, because of this very fact. The second fact is, this is a virtual currency....it's not like I can go to the bank and cash it out.
The third fact is, the intense volatility of this as a trading stock makes it a bucking bronco, and is not for the faint of heart daytrader.

And it shot up from $160 to $260 in less than 48 hours. The "correction" basically brought it back to where it was only a few days ago. It was a
predictable outcome of that sharp increase. Stop the sensationalism.

When trading is halted, it isn't a simple "correction". This has all the hallmarks of manipulation.

A friend and I mine Bitcoins. Right now, we're waiting for our new miner to be delivered from Butterfly Labs so that we can take advantage of the
newer and faster hardware. If you get the chance to buy Bitcoins at around the $45 mark like we did, then you should do it as you'll make a nice
profit when the prices rise again. We've made around £2,000 profit so far by just buying while the prices are low and selling while they are high.
It really isn't rocket science.

Great way to make real cash for pretty much no effort at all...other than learning about the hardware and software of course. And if you shop on the
Deep/Dark Web, they are a great currency to use.

They print government fiat willy nilly, 85 billion per month now with the infinite quantitative easing scheme. In fact most of it probably isn't even
printed on paper, but created electronically and then expanded as bank credit through fractional reserve banking. Cheap and easy to create without any
limits... just like trading cards.

On the other hand it takes a huge amount of computing power and electrical energy to produce every single bitcoin and there is a cap on how many can
be created, ever. Now you tell me which of the two is really worthless nonsense? The bitcoin network its self has never been compromised yet we see
stories like this all the time:

In some cases, people have ‘lost’ thousands of euros from their accounts because of the fault while others have thousands of euros too much,
Nos television reported.

Ahaha... and this is what they call "real hard" Government money, where as currencies like bitcoin are just "virtual fake" money. So how come the fake
money isn't prone to these types of glitches and isn't easy to manipulate like the real money is?

When trading is halted, it isn't a simple "correction". This has all the hallmarks of manipulation.

There are plenty of other exchanges where you can trade bitcoins if you want. Mt. Gox does not equate to bitcoin as many people seem to think. It's
just the most popular exchange. I do agree with you though, they shouldn't have halted trading, it will probably only invoke more panic and fear and
this "cool off" plan may backfire on them.

"bitcoin lost half it's value" is a misleading statement of there ever was one. That is relative to the dollar, which is a debt instrument - and
IOU. The fact is, you could once buy a bitcoin for a few dollars, so what? I'm guessing you could buy a bitcoin for 1 billion zimbawa paper script,
does that mean bitcoin is still hot? There is only an issue when those who use the bitcoin as a medium of exchange decide to stop using it.

What is beyond odd to me is that bitcoin is a creation to avoid the pitfalls of the Fiat Currency, debt base monetary system, and yet, remarkably
people continue to compare to the value of those items representing the system it seeks to bypass. Yes it is a medium of exchange that uses and escrow
account instead of a direct barter, but it isn't Debt Note based iou.

What is beyond odd to me is that bitcoin is a creation to avoid the pitfalls of the Fiat Currency, debt base monetary system, and yet,
remarkably people continue to compare to the value of those items representing the system it seeks to bypass.

That's because the instant they hear it's a totally online electronic currency they assume "omg it must be the demon child of the Illuminati nwo". Yet
they don't even understand one single thing about the decentralized proof-of-work based design and how is the anti-thesis of limitless inflationary
debt based money. For those of you who wish to look beyond these ridiculous stigmas and dig deeper into this issue see these two threads:

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